Holmes, Alice, and Ezeulu | Western Rationality in the Context of British Colonialism and Western Modernity

Andrew Schultz

ISBN 10: 3845440724 / ISBN 13: 9783845440729

Editore: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2011

Holmes, Alice, and Ezeulu | Western Rationality in the Context of British Colonialism and Western Modernity | Andrew Schultz | Taschenbuch | 84 S. | Englisch | 2011 | LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing | EAN 9783845440729 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, 49078 Osnabrück, mail[at]preigu[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu. Codice articolo 106818425

Riassunto:

This book's argument that rationality is less an intellectual than a cultural entity shouldn’t be startling. Contemporary intellectual theory has spent thirty years questioning the assumptions behind the epistemological processes of Western rationality. A casual glance at the situatedness of rationality in social class during the colonial period, during which one of the book's primary texts, The Hound of the Baskervilles, was written, suggests that its purpose has as much to do with social class as it has to do with an objective uncovering of facts and truth. Watson’s heartfelt, morally-impassioned remark that to believe in a superstition like the hound would be to “descend to the level of these poor peasants” (146) shows very clearly that rationality forms an important boundary between the lower and middle class. When one thinks about the influences that permitted the middle class to develop and differentiate itself from the lower, rationality becomes evident everywhere.

L'autore: Andrew lives in Houston with his wife Camille and their children Sydney, Spencer, and Cordelia. His pastimes include working in his church, reading, writing, rooting for BYU lacrosse, obligatory Dad duties like lawn-mowing and bug-killing, and intense, short-lived forays into various athletic pursuits like surfing, weight lifting, and running.

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Titolo: Holmes, Alice, and Ezeulu | Western ...
Casa editrice: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Data di pubblicazione: 2011
Legatura: Taschenbuch
Condizione: Neu